Publisher information
BMJ is a world-renowned publisher of medical and allied science research journals that are some of the most influential in the medical and healthcare community. BMJ journals are widely read and cited globally.
Agreement duration
1st January 2024 - 31st December 2024
Titles included
The 2024 BMJ Journals Title List is available.
Included: Hybrid Titles
Excluded: Gold Titles
Important information for University of Sydney authors
- To be eligible under this agreement, corresponding authors must use their authorised University of Sydney institutional email address: name@sydney.edu.au
- i.e. john.smith@sydney.edu.au or sarah.jones@sydney.edu.au
- For students: use the authorised student email address - the “UniKey” followed by @uni.sydney.edu.au
- i.e. xyz4321@uni.sydney.edu.au
- Do not use personal email addresses [i.e. Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail etc.]
- Do not use email addresses affiliated with other research centres, institutes, or similar organisations.
- Use of prohibited email address above results to author’s ineligibility under this agreement.
- Authors are eligible to publish in Hybrid open access titles under this agreement.
- Authors are ineligible to publish in Gold open access titles under this agreement.
Eligible article types
Original Research including these article types (see page 1 under "Hybrid Journals - Research Article Types" - “2023 Article Types per Collection”)
Acceptance date
Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement are eligible to be published as open access.
Information on submitting articles for open access publishing
- Observe The BMJ ’s article submission process.
- The author, on acceptance of their paper, is informed by the publisher of their Open Access publishing options. Author may select to publish OA at no APC charge when they submit their License to Publish form.
- Articles by authors, at participating institutions, may be published under these Creative Commons licenses: CC BY or CC BY-NC. It is important to note that CC BY-NC is the default open-access option to be selected for BMJ articles. On the other hand, CC BY is only available to authors in case funders mandate it.
Support
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